Dissolved organic carbon as an indicator of the scale of watershed influence on lakes and rivers

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1377-1390

  Gergel, Sarah E ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a   Kratz, Timothy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic carbon; Land cover; Land use; Spatial scale; Watersheds; Wetlands; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; LAND COVER; LAND USE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0032699469     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1377:DOCAAI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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